2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.
My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I’m going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I’m done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I’m gonna do my best to fight that.
Your last paragraph shows that you understand how corrupt the entire system is.
Go ahead, keep enjoying your meaningless little hobby.
A system can be both corrupt and worth participating in, especially if that’s the only way to improve it. No system is perfect, after all. We were beta testing democracy and never updated our source code despite some well-known bugs.
Electoral nihilism works against your interests.